(UXD walks into the room where hanbags, Jiggy, DeafLizgon, Khu, Lobo, miniku and animeang317 are chilling out)
UXD: Hello everyone!
(Everyone looks up)
Everyone: Hey UXD!
(UXD looks towards DeafLizgon and notices that Yamato and Ryan are missing)
UXD: Hey? Where are Ryan and Yamato?
Khu: Ever since they found out they were "brothers", they have been spending time together, they call it brotherly love, but I call it mindless destruction…
(There is a loud crash as Ryan and Yamato come flying though the brick wall)
Khu: (Sighs) See what I mean…
UXD: Okay…Anyhow, thanks guys for R&R, here is the next chapter…
Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown
Xiaolin Showdown: The Legend of the Thunder Child
34: Kimiko's Last HourNext day…
The sun shone through a small gap in the thick clouds that filled the entire sky, a cold wind blew through the temple. The morning weather matched the moods of the young monks perfectly, as they spent the night tossing and turning in bed. At seven o'clock, Dojo came to wake the monks up.
"Omi?" said Dojo as he opened Omi's curtain. "You up?"
"Yes…" groaned Omi as he walked out "Last night was a most difficult time to be sleeping…"
"Could you keep it down…" yawned Clay as he emerged from his room, "I didn't get a wink of sleep last night…"
"You're not the only one…" groaned Raimundo as he staggered out of his room.
"Raimundo's up at seven?" said Dojo looking up at Raimundo "That's a first…"
"I'm not in the mood for jokes…" groaned Raimundo as he walked past him, towards the kitchen.
"Yes…" yawned Omi as he and Clay followed Raimundo to the kitchen. "It is most upsetting that Ryan had left us…"
"Err…I wouldn't keep bring the subject up if I were you…" said Clay "Not after what happened with Kimiko last night…"
Kimiko began to wake from the worst night she had ever had, her body was still weak and her head was throbbing with pain. She tried to open her eyes, but she was too tired to open them fully. She reached around blindly on her bedside table, clumsily knocking objects off the table. She eventual found the item she was looking for, her makeup mirror. She looked at her reflection in it; she could hardly recognise the person looking back at her. Her eyes had lost their shine, her skin no longer had that soft feel to them and her hair was in the worst condition it had ever been. She sighed as she put the mirror on the floor. It was official; she looked like crap and felt like crap.
"What has happened to us…" sighed Kimiko "It was just me, Rai, Clay and Omi…"
She looked over to the side; her floor was littered in her stuff that she knocked off her bedside table. She saw that she had knocked off a picture that she kept by her bed.
"Just the four of us…Collecting Shen Gong Wu…Fighting evil…"
She slowly extended her hand out to pick up the picture; she dragged it across the floor towards her.
"Life wasn't perfect…But it was fun…"
She lifted the picture above her head and looked at it; it was a picture of her and Ryan. Ryan was lying on his bed with Kimiko being cradled by him in his arms. Kimiko was smiling in her own childish way, while Ryan was kissing her on the cheek.
"Then Ryan came along…"
Her blood began to boil as she thought about him; she could feel more anger than sadness this time as fire building up inside of her.
"Ryan!" growled Kimiko as she began to squeeze the picture in her hand, "It's all his fault!"
She lifted her fist and punched the picture, making the glass crack.
"I loved him!" growled Kimiko, her voice getting louder. "I loved him! And how does he repay me?"
She punched the picture again, making the crack larger.
"That bastard betrayed me!" she screamed "I hate you! I hate you, Ryan Young!"
She punched the picture again; her fist had the full strength of her anger behind it.
The picture flew out of her hand and with a loud smash; it hit the wall and showered the floor around it with shards of glass. Kimiko's arms fell to the floor; her body was pulsing with red hot anger. She suddenly felt something tap her finger; she looked down and saw that a large piece of glass had fallen near her hand. She grasped it her hand, it felt smooth and cold against her fingers. She ran a finger over the sharp point on the end and blood began to drip down the shard. She stared at the blood covered piece of glass and her blood stained finger. Tears began to roll down her face again; each tear stung her eyes like needles.
"Ryan…" thought Kimiko as she looked at her refection in the glass, "I hate you…But why…Why do I still think of you…"
She looked down at her other hand; blood was coming out of her knuckles from where she hit the picture.
"You were everything to me…"
She moved the glass towards her left arm and brought it across her skin. She didn't even flinch as blood slowly oozed from the cut in her arm.
"Without you…I see nothing in life…"
She moved below her elbow and made another cut in her arm.
"You were my life…Now… I see no point…"
She shut her eyes and clenched her teeth as she lowered the glass towards her hand, and with a swift movement, she jabbed it into her wrist and brought it across, causing blood to spill onto her bed.
Meanwhile...
"ARRR!" cried Ryan as he stumbled backwards, clutching his wrist.
"Ryan!" shouted a voice in his head "You must focus!"
"I'm trying to!" shouted Ryan as he regained his balance, "My left arm is killing me"
"RYAN!" yelled the voice again "Focus! May I remind you again that you only have two minutes left of the mission?"
Ryan suddenly realised what he was doing, the building he was standing in was collapsing around him, and numerous lifeless bodies were lying bloodstained around the room. Blood was dripping on the floor from Ryan's Sword of the Tempest as he held it firmly in his hand. A part of the roof suddenly began to crumble above him, and in a split second, he shot towards a window and leaped through it. There was a huge rumble as the entire building behind him.
"Ryan! Report your current mission status!" called the voice in his head
"Yes father!" said Ryan as he brushed the dust of himself, "The targets have been annihilated! Conquest is complete!"
"Excellent!" said the voice "Now hurry to the portal to finish the mission! You now have a minute left!"
"I'm on it!" said Ryan as he dashed through the rubble of the city that Ryan had only just destroyed.
"There's the portal!" said Ryan as he sped towards the portal, "Man…This is too easy!"
Ryan spoke to soon, there was a suddenly a loud cracking noise. Ryan looked up, even though he took out most of the city, one building however was still standing. But slowly but surely, it began to topple towards the portal
"Uh oh…" said Ryan "Got to move! Got to move quickly!"
He dashed as fast as he could towards the portal. He was almost there when suddenly his mind was invaded by voices.
"I hate you…But why…Why do I still think of you…"
"You were everything to me…"
"Without you…I see nothing in my life…"
"You were my life…Now… I see no point…"
"What the!" gasped Ryan as he stopped in his tracks, "What the hell was that?"
"RYAN!" shouted the voice in his head, "You have failed the mission!"
"Huh?" said Ryan "I've failed? What…ARRRR!"
His scream was cut short as the building toppled over, crushing Ryan under tonnes of rubble.
Two people dead in one chapter…But are they really dead? Who do you think should survive? R&R everyone!
I saw the first series 3 episode yesterday! And the next one is today! Woo Hoo! I have put "The Blood of the Dragon" on hold until I learn more about the Wudia level and other things. Anyhow, I have updated my profile to have a list of all the episodes in series 3, including ones that haven't yet been aired in the USA, and one episode from series 4! I have also been going nuts with thinking up new Shen Gong Wu (I've made up 29!) If you're stuck for Wu ideas, email me and I may let you use one of my wu ideas! Bye!